"To tell the story, by whatever means necessary," she said, munching chicken she had brought from the home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that she shares with Manuela Hoelterhoff, the acerbic, often devastating culture critic and occasional opera librettist.
He said that while there had been some "devastating" leaks, critics were conflating unauthorized disclosures that do real harm with legitimate government efforts to inform the public.
Keats was devastated when critics of Endymion described him as a 'piss-a-bed' but he went on writing.
And perhaps the most destructive part of the experience is that, rather than experiencing the succès d'estime of connoisseurs' acclaim despite commercial failure, these filmmakers endured devastating reviews from critics who insulted not only the films but their makers.
The continentals did not "get" Pragmatism; if its German opponents altogether misunderstood it, its Italian adherents among them, of all people, the critic and devastating iconoclast Giovanni Papini travestied it.
During the corruption scandal and impeachment proceedings that led to the resignation of President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992, his biting monologues and interviews with government critics "were devastating to the president," said Mario Sergio Conti, author of the leading book on the crisis.
